Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"The solution is now Flash-based, which is better. they moved away from Java."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"The technical support for Dell RecoverPoint is excellent."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"Dell RecoverPoint offers cost savings in the long term."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"When it works, it is the best product that is available."

"In terms of operational and financial benefits, in case of any disaster, it can recover."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions."

"Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution."

"RecoverPoint is designed to integrate seamlessly with Dell EMC storage. If you don't have Dell EMC storage, you can't use it with other brands like IBM or HP."

"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"I am waiting for block replication with VirtualBox."

"The support is horrible."

"The initial setup is complex."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"It is considered quite costly."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"The price is moderate."

"The product is fairly priced."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."